Because that makes no sense. You're either doing what's best for the people (curing pandemic) or what's not in their best interests (implementing a totalitarian control system). There's a disconnect there.
Yes after the 2009 swine flu outbreak the global health authorities changed the definition of "pandemic". It used to be mean that there was a novel virus spreading across borders that was resulting in mass amounts of death. They removed the part about mass death and now they can call it a pandemic simply if it's a novel virus that's spreading. We all have short memories but early-2020 we all thought this could be a Spanish Flu-type pandemic with people dropping dead all over the place. That didn't eventuate and the survival rate for this virus is something like 99.7%.
Just like they recently changed definition of "anti vaxxer" for political reasons. If you take every vaccine in the world yourself but you think that people should have the choice whether to be vaccinated then according to the (newly updated) Merriam-Webster dictionary, you are an
anti-vaxxer